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Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:55:23 -0700: HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
scribeva:

>Ritter and Reiter are syn.
>                    >>> Low German has riddere, with short vowel and 
>geminate. Middle High German forms seem to have varied between long and 
>short vowel, riter vs. rîter respectively, the latter giving rise to the 
>separate word Ritter (“knight”). Lachmann (1827) noted that Middle High 
>German poetry avoided use of the word in rhyming position, indicating 
>that the two forms were used interchangeably.[1]

In Dutch we have ridder (medieaval fighter, assistent, knight), ruiter
(on horseback), and rijder (in a car or on a motorcycle).